In response to the news that the 16-year prison sentence against prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who is critically ill, has been upheld on appeal, Amnesty International’s Research and…

Majid Abedinzadeh Moghadam was imprisoned in Kahrizak Detention Center for participating in the protests following the 2009 elections. There, he and over a hundred other detainees were subjected to systematic…

British-Iranian law graduate Ghoncheh Ghavami, right, with her mother, Susan Moshtaghian. She is accused of ‘propaganda against the regime’. Photograph: PA The brother of a British-Iranian woman who has been…

URGENT ACTION Ailed for women’s right to watch sports. Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old Iranian-British national, has been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since 30 June, largely in solitary confinement without…

The Iranian Judiciary continues to imprison Mohammad Davari, a journalist who was instrumental in exposing human rights violations at the Kahrizak Detention Center and other prisons in the aftermath of…